[XQZone General] Saving an HTML file with DOCTYPE

[David Sewell]

Mike,

This works beautifully. I needed the .xqy script to write a valid static
XHTML file to the filesystem, and now it's doing it, DOCTYPE declaration
and all. Thanks!

David


On Wed, 27 Oct 2004, Michael Blakeley wrote:

> > This doesn't really cover David's original request (to save the document on
> > the local filesystem).
[...]
> > I had a third option, but now I forgot :)
>
> Perhaps this?
>
> let $e := <test/>
> let $n := document {
> '<?xml version="1.0"?>',
> $e
> }
> return (
> xdmp:save("/tmp/test", $n),
> current-dateTime()
> )
>
> $ cat /tmp/test
> <?xml version="1.0"?><test/>
>
> This is basically the same as your XDBC option, but using xdmp:save(). The
> resulting document should have a root text node, rather than a root element:
> essentially, you've converted the xml in $e to text. You can do similar things
> with binary nodes, too.

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